The Late Middle Ages were the period of the late Renaissance 1300-1500, Around 1300, centuries of European prosperity and growth stopped. Famines and plagues reduced the population of Europe perhaps by half. Along with reducing population came fear, social unrest and war. Serious risings against the ruling classes occurred in Britain and France, France descended into an appalling period of brutality and civil war in the fourteenth century, religious upheavals and disagreements throughout Europe frequently resulted in bloodthirsty power struggles. In Britain the War of The Roses was fought through thirty years of the fifteenth century causing a decline in British influence.
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